The Australian/ India series

 I have to say I am not surprised Australia won 3-1.

The main reason I thought australia would easily win is that the much vaunted Indian batting lineup is over-rated.

Sharma and Kholi are in decline and should not have been in the team. Pant bats far too up in the order to be effective. The only spinner they brought who can take wickets here , Ashwin, retired in Brisbane. They appeared to have no plan on who formed the bowling and simply relied on Bumrah taking wickets. No other bowler was consistent.

Having said that They should have won in Melbourne when poor fielding and batting from Kholi and Pant meant they lost instead of drawing it.

I am staggered that after the poms showed how you bat to Boland they completely ignored this and allowed boland to put pressure on the batsmen not vvica versa.

In Sydney they merely needed to pitch the ball a good length and let the pitch do the rest but their bowlers did not understand this. 

Very poor coaching!

For Australia this win hid problems. It is an aging team. Batting collapses are not rare. Our bowlers are old and rarely get past 140 k. In the Ashes Starc will be 26, Hazelwood 34 and Cummins 33.

Just as India have batsmen in decline so do we. IF the poms bring out FIT fast bowlers we will be in trouble. We have only one player below 30 and no players is in their 20s. This is very poor long term.

We were very lucky Bumrah was injured for most of the sydney test. It was the most wicket friendly wicket for bowlers. If fit he would have easily taken ten wickets and possibly won the test for the Indians

However overall it proved yet again the best test cricket is when bowlers dominate batsmen.

Okay some technical points.

Batsmen should  play for the swing early on when facing Starc and then only play short balls outside the offstump and then play glances or shots of the hip after that.

Why si oes Sundar bowl around the wicket in Australia. It doesn't spin very much which negates the tactic and if you are short  or not on target there are east runs.

I am staggered why so many bowlers bowl around the wicket to lefthanders. IF you do not swing the ball away or cut it away then the tactic is stupid.

Why do bowlers bowl short to tail enders? Bowling a full length got them wickets previously and the drive is the hardest shot to plat technically.

Finally when will the McGrath foundation be asked why they have vey high administrative costs. No-one asks and no-one answers this very obvious question